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With a limited budget and a shortage of time, the architects embraced the idea of working with a natural material, untreated spruce.

Photo: Room Without A Cause

With a limited budget and a shortage of time, the architects embraced the idea of working with a natural material, untreated spruce.

Photo: Room Without A Cause

With a limited budget and a shortage of time, the architects embraced the idea of working with a natural material, untreated spruce.

Photo: Room Without A Cause

With a limited budget and a shortage of time, the architects embraced the idea of working with a natural material, untreated spruce.

Photo: Room Without A Cause

With a limited budget and a shortage of time, the architects embraced the idea of working with a natural material, untreated spruce.

Photo: Room Without A Cause

With a limited budget and a shortage of time, the architects embraced the idea of working with a natural material, untreated spruce.

Unexpected space among the rocks

Pavilion
in Skärhamn, Sweden
by Room Without A Cause

A soft, warm statement in the middle of the cold, hard and rocky Bohuslän landscape – this was the outcome when a group of young architects and artists, in partnership with Tjörn Municipality, built a wooden pavilion next to the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärhamn.

The pavilion comprises 14 frames resting on two longitudinal glulam beams. The frames vary in width and height, which gives the space its curvature. The structure is held together with threaded rods and nuts and tied with four beams that run through the top of the frames. The beams begin and end in the two narrow openings that form a kind of entrance on each side.

The spruce pavilion, measuring 6 metres in length and 4.1 metres in height, has a frame of construction timber that has been left entirely untreated. The whole build was completed in six days.

Now the pavilion has been moved to a temporary winter site. The hope is that by spring it will have a permanent home, as well as a roof and walls.

Swedish Wood’s aim is to increase the size and value of the market for Swedish wood and wood products in construction, interior design and packaging. Through inspiration, information and education, we promote wood as a competitive, renewable, versatile and natural material.
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